Yeah but it's kind of tired when it's being used every time someone makes a mistake with regex. I've used them extensively in my career and never once regretted it.

The problem with regexps is that “Sometimes a smart person, who has done the work, and knows how to leverage regular expressions correctly, decides they are appropriate for solving a problem where there is shared maintenance. Now, you have people who haven’t put in the work, and have been told repeatedly through ‘witty quips’ to not bother.”